Just sharing what I do. Never fails to have a huge pile of bark and small pieces of wood etc when splitting wood. I have feed sacks running out of my ears and fill them up with these scraps. I give them to my neighbors for kindling and the odd time I take on a new customer ( I only sell to 5-6 people ) I give them one every time I deliver wood to them. People love it actually and it isn’t juts going to the burn pile.
Good for you. Whenever we sold wood or even gave it away we always included some kindling with the load and also a couple of super cedars.
I keep plastic tubs full of splitter trash in my woodshed, good for restarting the boiler if it goes out. Bark goes to the compost pile - all it does is create ashes and I don't need more of that.
Sometimes I save them, sometimes I burn them, sometimes I just toss them on a trail road, especially if there is a high percentage of soft bark. I saved a bunch of pine cones one year to try for fire starters and squirrels got to them. I saved 5 milk crates of norway spruce cones in a squirrel proof shed last year and tried a few to burn and I'm not impressed. I might be spoiled with nice dry white pine branches.
I piled them as I was splitting during very dry times so I didn’t burn anything but they got ruined with the rain. Bummer. Well I know I can burn in a pile for the next few weeks from time to time. I thought they’d be ok for the stove but probably just a bit too green mixed.
I rake them up and throw them out back in the berm. I'll save sticks for kindling, or I use pallet wood.
All the scraps of wood go in the ugly basket to be used as kindling or shoulder wood. The bark and dirt type stuff gets raked up with the saw chips and goes in the low area behind my barn along with loads of chips from the occasional full clean up tree job
